Scale has announced it closed a $1 billion Series F round. The Series F was led by existing investor Accel, with participation from existing and new investors. The funds will be used so Scale's data foundry can accelerate the abundance of frontier data required by current AI demands.
The European Council has approved the AI Act, which will establish comprehensive, risk-based rules governing the development and use of artificial intelligence systems across the EU, aiming to ensure AI is safe and trustworthy while protecting fundamental rights and promoting innovation.
As OpenAI prepares to launch a new, GPT-4o powered Voice Mode for ChatGPT, the company has decided to share some insights into the casting process behind Breeze, Cove, Ember, Juniper, and Sky, the voices that have come to characterize ChatGPT.
Slack faced backlash after a user figured that Slack's Privacy Principles allowed analyzing customer data for non-generative AI models. This led to confusion surrounding Slack's user privacy policies, especially considering Slack now offers an LLM-powered service, Slack AI.
OpenAI scores yet another data licensing deal; highlights from Google's I/O 2024; Claude 3 is finally available in Europe; Sony Music Group has opted out of all present and future unauthorized data mining attempts; Researchers are helping AI master sarcasm; and more.
Google I/O 2024 was the perfect opportunity for the company to showcase its AI integrations across Search, Photos, Workspace, Android, and more. Read more for a rundown of Google's major AI announcements.
Researchers at the University of Groningen have developed an AI system that accurately detects sarcasm in unlabeled sitcom scenes. The research team sees AI's mastery of sarcasm as a necessary step towards more natural communication with AI.
Stockholm-based legal tech company Leya raised $10.5 million to scale its AI assistant tailored for lawyers to handle knowledge work across legal practice areas, freeing attorneys to focus on higher-level tasks.
LanceDB is working on a database built with the open-source Lance columnar database format that can handle the demands of multimodal data type storage and retrieval. The company, which already boasts some industry-leading customers, secured $11 million in funding to accelerate product development.
Snowflake has invested in Metaplane, the leading data observability platform, strengthening their premier partnership and ensuring data quality remains a critical focus as Snowflake expands its Data Cloud capabilities for enabling AI applications across the enterprise.
Artisan AI raised $7.3 million to build fully autonomous AI employees and a unified software platform to replace the enterprise SaaS stack. With ambitious goals like achieving Level 5 autonomy where AI can outperform humans, Artisan AI aims to redefine human-AI collaboration in the enterprise.
Ampere and Qualcomm have partnered to offer a powerful AI inferencing server solution that combines Ampere's efficient Arm-based CPUs with Qualcomm's Cloud AI 100 Ultra AI chips, delivering a best-of-breed platform for running large AI models at scale while maximizing performance and efficiency.